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Team Development

A client asked us to put together a workshop to help develop a departmental management team. The team consisted of 8 people with a fairly short average length of service. Each individual was rated as a high performer by the boss and the team had already been exposed to "typical" teambuilding workshops. The client was looking for something to help the team define a culture of high performance teamworking. Time out of the office was a major challenge.

Our solution

We designed two half day workshops.On part 1 we gave some brief input around the characteristics displayed by high perfoming teams. We then worked with the team to define "what good looks like" for high performance teamworking in their business. This resulted in a series of desired future state statements.

Between part 1 and part 2 we constructed an online survey which each team member completed. The survey was made up of three parts:

  • Part 1 was designed to assess each team member's perception of where the team was against the desired future state statements.
  • Part 2 was designed to assess each team member's perception of where the team was against 50 questions built around the high performance teamworking input.
  • Part 3 allowed each team member to freely express what they thought the key issues were in the team and to suggest possible actions to overcome these issues

Click on the image below to see an example screenshot of the survey.

We also asked each team member to complete an online DISC profile for use in the second workshop.

On part 2 of the workshop we analysed the questionnaire data and the team defined several key issues that it felt were important to work on. We then helped them identify several actions that they committed to working on. This was logged by the team in a team development plan. We also outlined the Thomas International DISC profile characteristics to the team and plotted where each team member fell against the four DISC types. We worked with the team to identify any implications associated with the team's makeup and actions were added to the team development plan.

As a follow-up to the DISC profiling we then provided in-depth feedback to each team member following the second workshop.

Click on the image below to view an overview of the workshop content.